Word: portions
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...immigration laws forbidding access to the country to persons advocating or practising polygamy, advocating the overthrow of constituted government, etc. The immigration officers of the Department of Labor have authority in enforcing these laws. A portion of the authority is also vested in the State Department through the power of its agents abroad in granting or denying visas for the passports of alien visitors...
Discussion of the common problems of graduate schools will be the most important portion of the business of the conference. At the first meeting on Thursday Dean Cross of Yale will speak on "The Two Functions of the Graduate Schools"; Professor Leon B. Pickerson of Dartmouth College will talk on "The Liberal College and Vocationalism"; and Dean Carl E. Seashore of the State University of Iowa will lecture on "The Placement Examination as a means of discovering and Motivating the Future Scholar Early." Delegates at the conference will be guests at the Yale-Army game on Saturday...
...total estate will be used as a santuary, for animals and plants and will also be used for field studies and instruction by the departments of botany, zoology and forestry. For a long time this extensive tract of forest has been under excellent protection and care. Around a portion of it is still found the high woven wire fence which confined the deer and elk when its former owner, Mr. Griest of New Haven, used the land as a deer park...
...establishment of the preserve was proposed by the board of Athletic Control, which found that the western portion of the estate was not needed for athletics. This committee, which is in charge of the administration of the property is headed by G. T. Adee '95, of New York...
France's most successful colonial administrator put a period to his career. For the last 13 years Marshal Lyautey has been building up Morocco. He pacified the major portion of it, consolidated the French protectorate, made it pay its way, put tens of thousands of Moroccan soldiers on the Allied front during the War. Only in 1916-17, when he served as French Minister of War, did he cease temporarily to be an immediate personal power in Moroccan affairs. Last week, at 71, he retired as French Resident General in Morocco, left his command and its recent complications...